After the project finally crashes and burns, they’re going to have to reconstitute temperature records from tree rings and glacier samples, just to find out what really happened.

[IsraelTimes] 2023 was the hottest year on record, with Earth’s surface nearly breaching the critical limit of 1.5 degree Celsius above late 19th century temperatures, the EU climate monitoring service says.

"It is also the first year with all days over one degree warmer than the pre-industrial period," says Samantha Burgess, deputy head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). "Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years."

I look forward to the Watts Up With That crowd fisking this claim.